Head of Agile Transformation

Responsibilities

Product Owner Discipline and Agile Transformation Leader – Payments

The Finastra Payments Business Unit is searching for a Product Owner Discipline and Agile Transformation Leader who will report to the Head of Technology.

In this dual-pronged role, the successful candidate will:

• Drive the establishment of a Product Owner Discipline through the design and implementation of consistent motions, expertise levels and accountabilities for all Product Owners, defining ways of working and key interaction points.
• Lead Payments’ Agile Transformation as a true change agent, evolving our culture, mindset and ways of working across Payments.
  
  

• Establish and implement effective product owner procedures, motions and interaction model within CTO and CPO, as well as across Payments.
• Ensure policies and best practices are up to industry standards and government regulations
• Develop highly trained, efficient, SMEs within the product owner group.
• You and your team will be responsible for:
• Product Owner in an Agile Scrum team: responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of that Scrum Team. Act as the “single voice” for priority and acceptance, of what to work on for delivery, of assigned product features and provide clear statement of vision, direction, and release purpose and goals.
• Backlog management and iteration planning: maintaining a well-groomed Product Backlog according to business value.
• Effective and timely coordination and communication with Product Managers and other stakeholders to align with and contribute to the product roadmap and strategy.
• Build and maintain a strong practical knowledge of the product functionality and deployment architecture.
• Produce / contribute to and maintain product collateral – product release notes, user guides, product fliers, product overviews, product presales presentations, roadmap communications.
• Scrum and resource planning with R&D.
  

• 10+ years of relevant financial services software experience working in an agile development process preferably as a Business Analyst, Product Manager or Product Owner.
• Fluent in English with strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving, planning, and decision-making skills. Ability to work independently, apply judgment, maintain stable performance under stress and flexibility in an evolving work environment.
• Experience with Agile development and Scrum/Kanban processes, or an alternative SDLC management process.
• Experience capturing functional requirements in the form of User Stories and Epics, or equivalent.
• Experience with or exposure to Financial Messaging / Payment processing systems, middleware, gateways, or Market Infrastructures.
• Experience with development and deployment of hosted and/or multi-tenant software delivered as SaaS or Cloud that utilizes service orientated architecture and that present published API's.
• Experience with development and deployment of enterprise-grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate in a payments or financial messaging enterprise ecosystem.